Cloud Surfing

Week of May 20, 2013

Part 1 37:30
Grateful Dead 3/1/87 Henry J Kaiser, Oakland CA
SPACE->
THE OTHER ONE->
BLACK PETER->
AROUND AND AROUND->
GOOD LOVIN’

Part 2 18:26
Grateful Dead 3/1/87 Henry J Kaiser, Oakland CA
DON’T EASE ME IN
Jerry Garcia and David Grisman, Alternate
RUSSIAN LULLABY
Melody Walker and Jacob Groopman 5/8/13 KPFA Performance Studio
LOSER

Support for the Grateful Dead Hour comes this week from the All Good Music Festival, July 18-21 at Legend valley in central Ohio, with Furthur featuring Phil Lesh & Bob Weir, Primus, Pretty Lights, Yonder Mountain, John Butler Trio, STS9, Grace Potter, Keller Williams and the Travelin McCourys, Leftover Salmon, Dark Star Orchestra and over 30 more with no overlapping sets. more information and tickets at www.allgoodfestival.com.

Week of May 13, 2013

Part 1 35:41
Grateful Dead 3/1/87 Henry J Kaiser Convention Center, Oakland CA
SAMSON AND DELILAH
BLACK MUDDY RIVER
HE’S GONE->
DRUMS

Part 2 19:31
Grateful Dead, Concertgebouw – Amsterdam, Holland 5/10/72
NOT FADE AWAY->
GOIN’ DOWN THE ROAD FEELIN’ BAD->
NOT FADE AWAY

Support for the Grateful Dead Hour comes from the Dark Star Jubilee, May 24 to 26 at Legend Valley in Central Ohio. Three nights of Dark Star Orchestra plus Mickey Hart Band, Yonder Mountain, Melvin Seals & JGB, Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe, The Wailers, Greensky Bluegrass, Donna Jean Godchaux Band featuring Jeff Mattson, Elephant Revival, David Gans, Pimps of Joytime, and many more. Complete festival details and tickets are available at www.darkstarJubilee.com.

Week of May 6, 2013

Part 1 27:19
Furthur 4/19/13 Capitol Theater, Port Chester NY
HELP ON THE WAY->
SLIPKNOT!->
THE SHAPE I’M IN
Talk
Peter Rowan, The Old School
DROP THE BONE
THAT’S ALL SHE WROTE

Part 2 28:16
Grateful Dead 3/1/87 Henry J Kaiser Convention Center, Oakland CA
HELL IN A BUCKET->
SCARLET BEGONIAS->
FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN

The 4/19/13 Furthur show is available on CD or by download from gnomesandhobbits.com, along with most other Furthur shows, Bob Weir solo acoustic shows, and more. “The Shape I’m In” was a tribute to Levon Helm on the first anniversary of his passing.

Peter Rowan‘s new CD, The Old School, includes (I’m very proud to say) a song we wrote together! It’s called “Drop the Bone.” You can preview and order the CD here.

Support for the Grateful Dead Hour comes from the Dark Star Jubilee, May 24 to 26 at Legend Valley in Central Ohio. Three nights of Dark Star Orchestra plus Mickey Hart Band, Yonder Mountain, Melvin Seals & JGB, Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe, The Wailers, Greensky Bluegrass, Donna Jean Godchaux Band featuring Jeff Mattson, Elephant Revival, David Gans, Pimps of Joytime, and many more. Complete festival details and tickets are available at www.darkstarjubilee.com.

Week of April 29, 2013

Part 1 28:47
Steve Kimock w/ Bob Weir et al 3/28/13 Great American Music Hall, San Francisco
LITTLE RED ROOSTER
I KNOW YOU RIDER
STANDING ON SHAKY GROUND

Part 2 27:16
Neal Casal, 7″ single for Record Store Day
MOUNTAINS OF THE MOON
Grateful Dead, Europe ’72: The Complete Recordings (5/23/72)
HE’S GONE
Jerry Garcia Band, GarciaLive vol 1.5 (6/26/81)
MISSION IN THE RAIN

Support for the Grateful Dead Hour comes this week from the All Good Music Festival, July 18-21 at Legend valley in central Ohio, featuring Furthur, Primus, Pretty Lights, Yonder Mountain, acoustic Dark Star Orchestra, John Butler Trio, STS9, Grace Potter, Keller Williams and the Travelin’ McCourys, Leftover Salmon, and over 30 more with no overlapping sets. more information and tickets at allgoodfestival.com.

I finally got around to activating my SoundCloud account, and among other things I am posting some interviews from my archive. First up are three interviews with guys who recorded Grateful Dead (and other) shows: Jerry Moore, Dr. Bob Wagner, and the brothers Jim Oade and Doug Oade. Here’s a link to that set.

I have hundreds and hundreds of hours of interviews with musicians, producers, engineers, and other interesting characters, going back to my days as a music journalist (starting at BAM Magazine in 1976) and throughout my career as a radio producer. As always, I am scrambling to keep my various enterprises afloat, so if you would like to encourage me to post more treats, please drop a few bucks into the tip jar at gdhour.com/support.html.

Thank you, and enjoy!!

P.S. I haven’t moved this one over to SoundCloud yet, but here is another interview with some great guys who record shows: Barry Glassberg, Rob Bertrando, and (again) Jerry Moore. This one was recorded between sets at Cal Expo on June 9, 1990.

Week of April 22, 2013

Part 1 25:02
Jim Page, Whose World Is This
SOUND OF A GUITAR
Talk
Grateful Dead 3/1/87 Henry J Kaiser, Oakland CA
FENNARIO
ME AND MY UNCLE->
MEXICALI BLUES
WHEN PUSH COMES TO SHOVE

Part 2 31:20
Grateful Dead 3/1/87 Henry J Kaiser, Oakland CA
IT’S ALL OVER NOW
ROW JIMMY
LET IT GROW

Jim Page is a singer-songwriter from Seattle. I’ve been a fan of his for decades, and I have been performing his wonderful song “Down to Eugene” for years. “Sound of a Guitar,” from the same album where I found “Eugene” (which you heard in last week’s program), is a tribute to Jerry Garcia. Check out Whose World Is This on iTunes.

Support for the Grateful Dead Hour comes from the Dark Star Jubilee May 24 to 26 at Legend Valley in Central Ohio. Three nights of Dark Star Orchestra plus Mickey Hart Band, Yonder Mountain, Melvin Seals & JGB, Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe, The Wailers, Greensky Bluegrass, Donna Jean Godchaux Band featuring Jeff Mattson, Elephant Revival, David Gans, Pimps of Joytime, and many more. Complete festival details and tickets are available at www.darkstarJubilee.com.

Week of April 15, 2013

Part 1 30:53
Grateful Dead, Olympia Theatre, Paris, France 5/4/72
GOOD LOVIN’
NEXT TIME YOU SEE ME

Part 2 25:12
Grateful Dead 3/1/87 Henry J Kaiser Auditorium, Oakland CA
TOUCH OF GREY
LITTLE RED ROOSTER
Jim Page, Whose World Is This
DOWN TO EUGENE
Bobby “Blue” Bland, from The Music Never Stopped: Roots of the Grateful Dead
TURN ON YOUR LOVE LIGHT

Support for the Grateful Dead Hour comes this week from the All Good Music Festival, July 18-21 at Legend valley in central Ohio, featuring Furthur, Primus, Pretty Lights, Yonder Mountain, John Butler Trio, STS9, Grace Potter, Keller Williams and the Travelin’ McCourys, Leftover Salmon, and over 30 more with no overlapping sets. More information and tickets at www.allgoodfestival.com.

Week of April 8, 2013

Part 1 34:31
Grateful Dead 6/8/69 Fillmore West, San Francisco
THINGS I USED TO DO w/ Elvin Bishop
WHO’S LOVIN’ YOU TONIGHT w/ Elvin Bishop
THAT’S IT FOR THE OTHER ONE->
COSMIC CHARLIE

Part 2 21:36
Grateful Dead, So Many Roads (1965-1995) (7/27/73)
WATKINS GLEN SOUNDCHECK JAM

According to the DeadNet Store, a stash of So Many Roads (1965-1995) in the original slip case were found in a distributor’s warehouse, “so limited quantities are available!”

Lost Live Dead is an indispensable resource if you’re interested in the history of the Grateful Dead and related historical and musical subjects. Here is the entry on the fascinating events of a weekend at the Fillmore West in June of 1969.

Support for the Grateful Dead Hour comes this week from:

The Wanee Music Festival, April 18-20 at the Spirit of the Suwanee Music Park in Live Oak, Florida. Two nights of both the Allman Brothers Band and Widespread Panic, plus Gov’t Mule, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Robert Randolph & The Family Band, Electric Hot Tuna, Leon Russell, Tower of Power, Maceo Parker, Les Claypool’s Duo De Twang, Galactic & Friends, Steel Pulse, and dozens of additional artists. Tickets are available now at livenation.com or waneefestival.com.

The All Good Music Festival, July 18-21 at Legend Valley in central Ohio, featuring Furthur, Primus, Pretty Lights, Yonder Mountain, John Butler Trio, STS9, Grace Potter, Keller Williams and the Travelin McCourys, Leftover Salmon, and over 30 more with no overlapping sets. Information and tickets at allgoodfestival.com.

Week of April 1, 2013

Part 1 45:47
Interview: Corry Arnold
Grateful Dead 6/8/69 Fillmore West, San Francisco
TURN ON YOUR LOVELIGHT (with Wayne Ceballos et al)

Part 2 10:26
Jackie Greene, The Grateful EP
SUGAREE

Corry Arnold is a blogger who does amazing research on the history of the Grateful Dead and related historical and musical subjects. Lost Live Dead is an indispensable resource if you’re interested in this stuff. Here is his entry on the fascinating events of a weekend at the Fillmore West in June of 1969.

Corry was born and raised in Northern California. His first rock concert was the Grateful Dead at Winterland on December 12, 1972, and “things have been hopeless ever since.” From that time onwards, he has been working on rock and roll history, with an emphasis on the forgotten and the unseen. In addition to Lost Live Dead, Corry posts great stuff at Hooterollin’ Around, Rock Prosopography 101, and Rock Archaeology 101.

Corry is also a co-conspirator on the Chicken On A Unicycle site

Support for The Grateful Dead Hour comes this week from Winery Sixteen 600, announcing the release of the 2009 vintage Syrah Cabernet and Estate Zinfandel, all grown by pioneer organic grape grower and devout Dead Head Phil Coturri and featuring label art designed by Stanley Mouse. More information at winerysixteen600.com and on Facebook.